Big O came.. And well.. For starters I was more excited to know what the "gift" was.. but I think it was face-palming myself.. because my box contained none.. MASSIVE HUFF... NICE ONE ANGOLZ.. I'll be writing them a disgruntled email shortly.. It better not be the authorized hologram hong kong distrution sticker on the back of the box..

So to the 'big' guy himself.. He's about the same height as Great Impact Gurren Lagann or SOC Reideen (if you count Reideens pointy bits).. and he's wider than.. well everything.. Even Dancougars shoulders.. His arms are massive.

The lack of the gift has put me in a bad mood.. the chromed piston rod things in his arms aren't metal. Which was a disappointment.. also his ankle guard bits flap in the wind.. I can't see why it wasn't just molded as part as the rest of the foot.. Weird.

Also the lack of accessories didn't really bother me at the time of purchase.. but after taking him out of the box.. it feels really empty. The option set really should have been included. But if they included a little figure of Roger Smith (ala GX-24 Testujin) that would have satisfied me.

Otherwise he's a fairly solid piece.. He balances well, all the joints are firm enough for whatever pose. He kind of feels like Gaiking how his legs extend out. The paint app is of typical high quality of a SOC and the metallic colour reminds me much of GX-24.

I've got the series on DVD, but I haven't gotten around to watching it yet, so I can't comment on anime accurancy and/or signature poses..

There are things i've probably missed, but I'll leave that to others..

*UPDATE*

I sent an email shortly after posting and a couple hours later Angolz had replied back with an answer:

"The gift was manufactured by Bandai-Asia, it wasn't released at the same time when we get the actual SOC Big-O. To avoid any delay, we decided to send out the SOC Big-O first.
We received the gift yesterday from the distributor and we have just send it out in a separate shipment by Air Mail today."

Seems weird that they sent them separately. That would be costly for them. Anyhow, I'm now a happy customer.

Wow really impressive, and great poses. Due to the lack of funds, I actually had to cancel my pre-order of him. I'll guess I'll have to wait and see. Man after seeing this photos now I really want him.

And no, the pistons are just chrome plastic. They're spring-loaded, and pretty strong, so I don't think you'd want them constantly snapping into the arm housing. Frankly I don't generally believe in metal for metal's sake. Big-O has enough diecast content to give it plenty of heft.

If Big O's arm pistons had been metal, My assumption is that metal would have added too much weight to the arms giving it uneven weight distribution which would obviously affect posing ability of the arms.

The fact that you think that belies your own lacking sense of subtlety. There are many existing classics of Zaku(etc)-on-boob photography, and more are always welcome, but a machine that is a hand, an intricately personal symbol, demands a human, animistic treatment, not the raw, lustful adoration of the pure object.

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> a machine that is a
> hand, an intricately personal symbol, demands a
> human, animistic treatment, not the raw, lustful
> adoration of the pure object.

So seeing it slosh around inside some pelvic orifice is off the table?

I picked up a T-28 on fire sale. Hefty, hefty, hefty. But even with all the pop-out jointage (crotch, hips, ankles) I still cannot get its legs to spread laterally more than a few degrees. Product photos on the box and internet seem to show quite a bit more movement there at the hips than what I'm getting. And the mid-chest joint seems useless. What the hell am I doing wrong?

Same goes for Black Ox. I seriously cannot pose the lower body in any sort of stable configuration aside from standing at attention. Bummer. But the peel-away face is hella creepy cool. It's what a Jawa skull must look like. Dig it.